11/21/2023 0 Comments Adblocker ultimate firefox review![]() ![]() The setup is every high school junior’s nightmare. Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy, and Paul Giamatti (from left) in The Holdovers. The textured and subdued light captured by Danish cinematographer Eigil Bryld (he also shot this year’s Jennifer Lawrence sex comedy No Hard Feelings) , recalls both the lost afternoons of pre-Watergate America and the cherished ‘70s films of the director Hal Ashby.Īs for the ancient part, the nervous, snow-swept solemnity of Vietnam-era New England is so powerfully evoked by Payne and his crackerjack production team that it feels at once a million years ago and so close you can touch it with your fingertips-which are all but frostbitten because some bully kid stole one of your mittens. The Holdovers catches the curious magic and peculiar humor that can occur when people sporting different shades of sadness bang up against each other in strange and unforgiving places, like the echoing hallways of an all but abandoned school. That may also be the perfect subtitle for Payne’s movie. “ Magic and Light in the Ancient World,” mutters Paul, trying to keep up. Rather than admit the truth-after failing to graduate college, the 50-something Paul took an adjunct position at his old boarding school and has been there ever since-he and Angus concoct an impressive CV: he’s an esteemed professor with many prestigious international postings, and even has a book coming out about the Byzantine culture’s use of cameras obscura. Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa There is a moment in The Holdovers- a quiet miracle of a film from director Alexander Payne and writer David Hemingson, a TV scribe making his movie debut-where cantankerous Ancient Civilizations teacher Paul Hunham (Payne’s Sideways co-conspirator Paul Giamatti) and his gangly, chaotic student charge Angus (first-timer Dominic Sessa) run into an old Harvard classmate of Paul’s while wandering the streets of Boston. Dominic Sessa (l) and Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers.
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